--:-- Georgia Howe: But it's called The Three Musketeers. Yes, it's called The Three Musketeers because at first, Artanian isn't a musketeer yet, but eventually proves he is worthy of the title. They should have called the book Some Musketeers.
--:-- [Clip plays from Chip Chilla]
--:-- Georgia Howe: That was a clip from the new animated series Chip Chilla, one of 18 shows that debuted Monday on Bent Key, the Daily Wire's new streaming app for kids.
--:-- John Bickley: The company, which also produces this show, of course, launched the platform with over 150 episodes of shows for kids of all age ranges. By the end of its first day, Bent Key was the number one downloaded kids app in the Apple Store.
--:-- Georgia Howe: In this episode of Morning Wire, Daily Wire culture reporter Megan Basham talks to Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boring about the company's new venture into children's entertainment.
--:-- [Clip plays from Chip Chilla]
--:-- Georgia Howe: I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley. It's October 24th, and this is a Sunday edition of Morning Wire. The following is an interview with Daily Wire culture reporter Megan Basham and Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boring.
--:-- Megan Basham: So Jeremy, I am in the midst of the heavy mom years. All my friends are moms. We're constantly talking about this problem of entertainment, and especially really that need to monitor our kids' shows for content we don't want them exposed to. It's truly become a constant source of aggravation. So I can tell you that the minute you announced the Bent Key app on Monday, my phone blew up. There has been nothing like this as far as, for my demographic, this level of excitement and enthusiasm.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: And so I think the first question that I would want to ask you is, what was your inspiration for this particular venture? And when you were thinking about what you wanted this kids entertainment platform to offer, what kind of shows did you have in mind?
--:-- Megan Basham: Well, I think one of the reasons that Daily Wire has been successful is because we don't necessarily give people exactly what they think they want. We give them what we think they actually want. And so at Daily Wire, I've always said part of our job as lowercase r Republicans is to represent our audience, never to betray our audience, but also to help lead our audience to the thing that they actually want.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: And so if you watch many of the movies that we've produced along the way, we try to make movies that are actually good, entertaining movies for adults and aren't movies that sort of pander to, you know, complete ideological purity. Because I think that that actually results in being unentertaining. But when we got the opportunity to make content for kids, I feel completely the opposite. Adults should be challenged. Adults should be exposed to things that they don't always agree with so that adults can make good decisions and inform decisions.
--:-- Megan Basham: Kids do not have the tools to make those kinds of decisions. You say you're a mom in your core mom years. You're on the front lines of the most important battle, not only of our time, but of all time. And that's inculcating values into children. It's teaching children how to become the adults that we want to see them become.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: And for that reason, when I started thinking about what kind of content do we want to make in our kids' entertainment operation, the answer was obvious to me. I want to make wonderful, beautiful, hilarious, highly entertaining content that is chock full of goodness, that parents can trust implicitly, that they don't have to worry when they put their kids in front of one piece of our content, what's that going to roll into as the next piece of content?
--:-- Megan Basham: Of course, parents should vet our content just like they do everything for their kids. You're the most responsible person for your kids. But what if you don't? If you didn't, I want it to still be okay because we're vetting that content.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: So is there a particular scene in one of the shows that are available on the Bent Key app right now that stands out to you as sort of emblematic of that kind of goodness that you're talking about?
--:-- Megan Basham: I would honestly say that I think every single scene of A Wonderful Day with Mabel McClay perfectly encapsulates what we're trying to create.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Okay, well, on that note, let's pause for just a second and listen to a clip of Mabel McClay and her dog Jasper.
--:-- [Clip plays from A Wonderful Day with Mabel McClay]
--:-- Megan Basham: Yeah, I'm stuck. What is you, chew up a bottle of glue again? No, no, that was a sticky situation. But no, it's nothing like that. You see, what I mean is I'm having a hard time being creative, see? Oh. I'm all out of ideas. I can't seem to make no more. Oh, I'm just not creative after all. You? Not creative? Show us what you making I am trying to make a time machine A time machine A time machine Yeah that what I trying to do right here Oh my oh my where you get an idea like that Well, see, kind of how it came about was like this. I was missing you so much that I figured if I make a time machine, then I could speed up time and get you to come home soon.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Oh, I see. Jasper, that is so sweet and so creative.
--:-- Megan Basham: So even though my kids are long past preschool age, a friend of mine who does have a three-year-old watched several episodes, and she told me that she was really struck by the quality of the production that has gone into Mabel McLean, but she did wonder how Daily Wire, given that it is something of a new player to this game, is going to be able to keep up the pace of that level of production.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: We've launched 18 series, almost 150 episodes on the app today with new episodes coming every single Saturday. We're bringing back Saturday morning cartoons. But only four of those shows are original productions. It'll take a long time before we produce enough original content that everything on the app is ours. Now, that's not to say that everything on the app hasn't been vetted. It has been every single minute of every single show.
--:-- Megan Basham: But obviously, the shows that we're making best represent what our vision long term for the company is. So you mentioned that only four of the series are original. So that means then you purchased quite a number of series there. How do you decide when you're looking at potential content to purchase, what is it that you see in these shows that make you want to sign on the dotted line, say, we want to buy that show and sign you up?
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Well, first, it has to be good. My dream is that 18 years from now, I'll be on some college campus somewhere. I'll be at some TPUSA event or something. And some young conservative will come up to me and say something. And there are two things that they could say. One of them is, Ben Key, yeah, man, my parents used to make me watch that. The other is, oh, yeah, Ben Key, I grew up with that. I want the latter.
--:-- Megan Basham: So I think the first question that I would want to ask you is, what was your inspiration for this particular venture? And when you were thinking about what you wanted this kids entertainment platform to offer, what kind of shows did you have in mind?
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Well, I think one of the reasons that Daily Wire has been successful is because we don't necessarily give people exactly what they think they want. We give them what we think they actually want. And so at Daily Wire, I've always said part of our job as lowercase r Republicans is to represent our audience, never to betray our audience, but also to help lead our audience to the thing that they actually want.
--:-- Megan Basham: And so if you watch many of the movies that we've produced along the way, we try to make movies that are actually good, entertaining movies for adults and aren't movies that sort of pander to, you know, complete ideological purity. Because I think that that actually results in being unentertaining. But when we got the opportunity to make content for kids, I feel completely the opposite. Adults should be challenged. Adults should be exposed to things that they don't always agree with so that adults can make good decisions and inform decisions.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Kids do not have the tools to make those kinds of decisions. You say you're a mom in your core mom years. You're on the front lines of the most important battle, not only of our time, but of all time. And that's inculcating values into children. It's teaching children how to become the adults that we want to see them become.
--:-- Megan Basham: And for that reason, when I started thinking about what kind of content do we want to make in our kids' entertainment operation, the answer was obvious to me. I want to make wonderful, beautiful, hilarious, highly entertaining content that is chock full of goodness, that parents can trust implicitly, that they don't have to worry when they put their kids in front of one piece of our content, what's that going to roll into as the next piece of content?
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Of course, parents should vet our content just like they do everything for their kids. You're the most responsible person for your kids. But what if you don't? If you didn't, I want it to still be okay because we're vetting that content.
--:-- Megan Basham: So is there a particular scene in one of the shows that are available on the Bent Key app right now that stands out to you as sort of emblematic of that kind of goodness that you're talking about?
--:-- Jeremy Boring: I would honestly say that I think every single scene of A Wonderful Day with Mabel McClay perfectly encapsulates what we're trying to create.
--:-- Megan Basham: Okay, well, on that note, let's pause for just a second and listen to a clip of Mabel McClay and her dog Jasper.
--:-- [Clip plays from A Wonderful Day with Mabel McClay]
--:-- Megan Basham: Yeah, I'm stuck. What is you, chew up a bottle of glue again? No, no, that was a sticky situation. But no, it's nothing like that. You see, what I mean is I'm having a hard time being creative, see? Oh. I'm all out of ideas. I can't seem to make no more. Oh, I'm just not creative after all. You? Not creative? Show us what you making I am trying to make a time machine A time machine A time machine Yeah that what I trying to do right here Oh my oh my where you get an idea like that Well, see, kind of how it came about was like this. I was missing you so much that I figured if I make a time machine, then I could speed up time and get you to come home soon.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Oh, I see. Jasper, that is so sweet and so creative.
--:-- Megan Basham: So even though my kids are long past preschool age, a friend of mine who does have a three-year-old watched several episodes, and she told me that she was really struck by the quality of the production that has gone into Mabel McLean, but she did wonder how Daily Wire, given that it is something of a new player to this game, is going to be able to keep up the pace of that level of production.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: We've launched 18 series, almost 150 episodes on the app today with new episodes coming every single Saturday. We're bringing back Saturday morning cartoons. But only four of those shows are original productions. It'll take a long time before we produce enough original content that everything on the app is ours. Now, that's not to say that everything on the app hasn't been vetted. It has been every single minute of every single show.
--:-- Megan Basham: But obviously, the shows that we're making best represent what our vision long term for the company is. So you mentioned that only four of the series are original. So that means then you purchased quite a number of series there. How do you decide when you're looking at potential content to purchase, what is it that you see in these shows that make you want to sign on the dotted line, say, we want to buy that show and sign you up?
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Well, first, it has to be good. My dream is that 18 years from now, I'll be on some college campus somewhere. I'll be at some TPUSA event or something. And some young conservative will come up to me and say something. And there are two things that they could say. One of them is, Ben Key, yeah, man, my parents used to make me watch that. The other is, oh, yeah, Ben Key, I grew up with that. I want the latter.
--:-- Megan Basham: So I think the first question that I would want to ask you is, what was your inspiration for this particular venture? And when you were thinking about what you wanted this kids entertainment platform to offer, what kind of shows did you have in mind?
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Well, I think one of the reasons that Daily Wire has been successful is because we don't necessarily give people exactly what they think they want. We give them what we think they actually want. And so at Daily Wire, I've always said part of our job as lowercase r Republicans is to represent our audience, never to betray our audience, but also to help lead our audience to the thing that they actually want.
--:-- Megan Basham: And so if you watch many of the movies that we've produced along the way, we try to make movies that are actually good, entertaining movies for adults and aren't movies that sort of pander to, you know, complete ideological purity. Because I think that that actually results in being unentertaining. But when we got the opportunity to make content for kids, I feel completely the opposite. Adults should be challenged. Adults should be exposed to things that they don't always agree with so that adults can make good decisions and inform decisions.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Kids do not have the tools to make those kinds of decisions. You say you're a mom in your core mom years. You're on the front lines of the most important battle, not only of our time, but of all time. And that's inculcating values into children. It's teaching children how to become the adults that we want to see them become.
--:-- Megan Basham: And for that reason, when I started thinking about what kind of content do we want to make in our kids' entertainment operation, the answer was obvious to me. I want to make wonderful, beautiful, hilarious, highly entertaining content that is chock full of goodness, that parents can trust implicitly, that they don't have to worry when they put their kids in front of one piece of our content, what's that going to roll into as the next piece of content?
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Of course, parents should vet our content just like they do everything for their kids. You're the most responsible person for your kids. But what if you don't? If you didn't, I want it to still be okay because we're vetting that content.
--:-- Megan Basham: So is there a particular scene in one of the shows that are available on the Bent Key app right now that stands out to you as sort of emblematic of that kind of goodness that you're talking about?
--:-- Jeremy Boring: I would honestly say that I think every single scene of A Wonderful Day with Mabel McClay perfectly encapsulates what we're trying to create.
--:-- Megan Basham: Okay, well, on that note, let's pause for just a second and listen to a clip of Mabel McClay and her dog Jasper.
--:-- [Clip plays from A Wonderful Day with Mabel McClay]
--:-- Megan Basham: Yeah, I'm stuck. What is you, chew up a bottle of glue again? No, no, that was a sticky situation. But no, it's nothing like that. You see, what I mean is I'm having a hard time being creative, see? Oh. I'm all out of ideas. I can't seem to make no more. Oh, I'm just not creative after all. You? Not creative? Show us what you making I am trying to make a time machine A time machine A time machine Yeah that what I trying to do right here Oh my oh my where you get an idea like that Well, see, kind of how it came about was like this. I was missing you so much that I figured if I make a time machine, then I could speed up time and get you to come home soon.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Oh, I see. Jasper, that is so sweet and so creative.
--:-- Megan Basham: So even though my kids are long past preschool age, a friend of mine who does have a three-year-old watched several episodes, and she told me that she was really struck by the quality of the production that has gone into Mabel McLean, but she did wonder how Daily Wire, given that it is something of a new player to this game, is going to be able to keep up the pace of that level of production.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: We've launched 18 series, almost 150 episodes on the app today with new episodes coming every single Saturday. We're bringing back Saturday morning cartoons. But only four of those shows are original productions. It'll take a long time before we produce enough original content that everything on the app is ours. Now, that's not to say that everything on the app hasn't been vetted. It has been every single minute of every single show.
--:-- Megan Basham: But obviously, the shows that we're making best represent what our vision long term for the company is. So you mentioned that only four of the series are original. So that means then you purchased quite a number of series there. How do you decide when you're looking at potential content to purchase, what is it that you see in these shows that make you want to sign on the dotted line, say, we want to buy that show and sign you up?
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Well, first, it has to be good. My dream is that 18 years from now, I'll be on some college campus somewhere. I'll be at some TPUSA event or something. And some young conservative will come up to me and say something. And there are two things that they could say. One of them is, Ben Key, yeah, man, my parents used to make me watch that. The other is, oh, yeah, Ben Key, I grew up with that. I want the latter.
--:-- Megan Basham: So I think the first question that I would want to ask you is, what was your inspiration for this particular venture? And when you were thinking about what you wanted this kids entertainment platform to offer, what kind of shows did you have in mind?
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Well, I think one of the reasons that Daily Wire has been successful is because we don't necessarily give people exactly what they think they want. We give them what we think they actually want. And so at Daily Wire, I've always said part of our job as lowercase r Republicans is to represent our audience, never to betray our audience, but also to help lead our audience to the thing that they actually want.
--:-- Megan Basham: And so if you watch many of the movies that we've produced along the way, we try to make movies that are actually good, entertaining movies for adults and aren't movies that sort of pander to, you know, complete ideological purity. Because I think that that actually results in being unentertaining. But when we got the opportunity to make content for kids, I feel completely the opposite. Adults should be challenged. Adults should be exposed to things that they don't always agree with so that adults can make good decisions and inform decisions.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Kids do not have the tools to make those kinds of decisions. You say you're a mom in your core mom years. You're on the front lines of the most important battle, not only of our time, but of all time. And that's inculcating values into children. It's teaching children how to become the adults that we want to see them become.
--:-- Megan Basham: And for that reason, when I started thinking about what kind of content do we want to make in our kids' entertainment operation, the answer was obvious to me. I want to make wonderful, beautiful, hilarious, highly entertaining content that is chock full of goodness, that parents can trust implicitly, that they don't have to worry when they put their kids in front of one piece of our content, what's that going to roll into as the next piece of content?
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Of course, parents should vet our content just like they do everything for their kids. You're the most responsible person for your kids. But what if you don't? If you didn't, I want it to still be okay because we're vetting that content.
--:-- Megan Basham: So is there a particular scene in one of the shows that are available on the Bent Key app right now that stands out to you as sort of emblematic of that kind of goodness that you're talking about?
--:-- Jeremy Boring: I would honestly say that I think every single scene of A Wonderful Day with Mabel McClay perfectly encapsulates what we're trying to create.
--:-- Megan Basham: Okay, well, on that note, let's pause for just a second and listen to a clip of Mabel McClay and her dog Jasper.
--:-- [Clip plays from A Wonderful Day with Mabel McClay]
--:-- Megan Basham: Yeah, I'm stuck. What is you, chew up a bottle of glue again? No, no, that was a sticky situation. But no, it's nothing like that. You see, what I mean is I'm having a hard time being creative, see? Oh. I'm all out of ideas. I can't seem to make no more. Oh, I'm just not creative after all. You? Not creative? Show us what you making I am trying to make a time machine A time machine A time machine Yeah that what I trying to do right here Oh my oh my where you get an idea like that Well, see, kind of how it came about was like this. I was missing you so much that I figured if I make a time machine, then I could speed up time and get you to come home soon.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Oh, I see. Jasper, that is so sweet and so creative.
--:-- Megan Basham: So even though my kids are long past preschool age, a friend of mine who does have a three-year-old watched several episodes, and she told me that she was really struck by the quality of the production that has gone into Mabel McLean, but she did wonder how Daily Wire, given that it is something of a new player to this game, is going to be able to keep up the pace of that level of production.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: We've launched 18 series, almost 150 episodes on the app today with new episodes coming every single Saturday. We're bringing back Saturday morning cartoons. But only four of those shows are original productions. It'll take a long time before we produce enough original content that everything on the app is ours. Now, that's not to say that everything on the app hasn't been vetted. It has been every single minute of every single show.
--:-- Megan Basham: But obviously, the shows that we're making best represent what our vision long term for the company is. So you mentioned that only four of the series are original. So that means then you purchased quite a number of series there. How do you decide when you're looking at potential content to purchase, what is it that you see in these shows that make you want to sign on the dotted line, say, we want to buy that show and sign you up?
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Well, first, it has to be good. My dream is that 18 years from now, I'll be on some college campus somewhere. I'll be at some TPUSA event or something. And some young conservative will come up to me and say something. And there are two things that they could say. One of them is, Ben Key, yeah, man, my parents used to make me watch that. The other is, oh, yeah, Ben Key, I grew up with that. I want the latter.
--:-- Megan Basham: So I think the first question that I would want to ask you is, what was your inspiration for this particular venture? And when you were thinking about what you wanted this kids entertainment platform to offer, what kind of shows did you have in mind?
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Well, I think one of the reasons that Daily Wire has been successful is because we don't necessarily give people exactly what they think they want. We give them what we think they actually want. And so at Daily Wire, I've always said part of our job as lowercase r Republicans is to represent our audience, never to betray our audience, but also to help lead our audience to the thing that they actually want.
--:-- Megan Basham: And so if you watch many of the movies that we've produced along the way, we try to make movies that are actually good, entertaining movies for adults and aren't movies that sort of pander to, you know, complete ideological purity. Because I think that that actually results in being unentertaining. But when we got the opportunity to make content for kids, I feel completely the opposite. Adults should be challenged. Adults should be exposed to things that they don't always agree with so that adults can make good decisions and inform decisions.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Kids do not have the tools to make those kinds of decisions. You say you're a mom in your core mom years. You're on the front lines of the most important battle, not only of our time, but of all time. And that's inculcating values into children. It's teaching children how to become the adults that we want to see them become.
--:-- Megan Basham: And for that reason, when I started thinking about what kind of content do we want to make in our kids' entertainment operation, the answer was obvious to me. I want to make wonderful, beautiful, hilarious, highly entertaining content that is chock full of goodness, that parents can trust implicitly, that they don't have to worry when they put their kids in front of one piece of our content, what's that going to roll into as the next piece of content?
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Of course, parents should vet our content just like they do everything for their kids. You're the most responsible person for your kids. But what if you don't? If you didn't, I want it to still be okay because we're vetting that content.
--:-- Megan Basham: So is there a particular scene in one of the shows that are available on the Bent Key app right now that stands out to you as sort of emblematic of that kind of goodness that you're talking about?
--:-- Jeremy Boring: I would honestly say that I think every single scene of A Wonderful Day with Mabel McClay perfectly encapsulates what we're trying to create.
--:-- Megan Basham: Okay, well, on that note, let's pause for just a second and listen to a clip of Mabel McClay and her dog Jasper.
--:-- [Clip plays from A Wonderful Day with Mabel McClay]
--:-- Megan Basham: Yeah, I'm stuck. What is you, chew up a bottle of glue again? No, no, that was a sticky situation. But no, it's nothing like that. You see, what I mean is I'm having a hard time being creative, see? Oh. I'm all out of ideas. I can't seem to make no more. Oh, I'm just not creative after all. You? Not creative? Show us what you making I am trying to make a time machine A time machine A time machine Yeah that what I trying to do right here Oh my oh my where you get an idea like that Well, see, kind of how it came about was like this. I was missing you so much that I figured if I make a time machine, then I could speed up time and get you to come home soon.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Oh, I see. Jasper, that is so sweet and so creative.
--:-- Megan Basham: So even though my kids are long past preschool age, a friend of mine who does have a three-year-old watched several episodes, and she told me that she was really struck by the quality of the production that has gone into Mabel McLean, but she did wonder how Daily Wire, given that it is something of a new player to this game, is going to be able to keep up the pace of that level of production.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: We've launched 18 series, almost 150 episodes on the app today with new episodes coming every single Saturday. We're bringing back Saturday morning cartoons. But only four of those shows are original productions. It'll take a long time before we produce enough original content that everything on the app is ours. Now, that's not to say that everything on the app hasn't been vetted. It has been every single minute of every single show.
--:-- Megan Basham: But obviously, the shows that we're making best represent what our vision long term for the company is. So you mentioned that only four of the series are original. So that means then you purchased quite a number of series there. How do you decide when you're looking at potential content to purchase, what is it that you see in these shows that make you want to sign on the dotted line, say, we want to buy that show and sign you up?
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Well, first, it has to be good. My dream is that 18 years from now, I'll be on some college campus somewhere. I'll be at some TPUSA event or something. And some young conservative will come up to me and say something. And there are two things that they could say. One of them is, Ben Key, yeah, man, my parents used to make me watch that. The other is, oh, yeah, Ben Key, I grew up with that. I want the latter.
--:-- Megan Basham: So I think the first question that I would want to ask you is, what was your inspiration for this particular venture? And when you were thinking about what you wanted this kids entertainment platform to offer, what kind of shows did you have in mind?
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Well, I think one of the reasons that Daily Wire has been successful is because we don't necessarily give people exactly what they think they want. We give them what we think they actually want. And so at Daily Wire, I've always said part of our job as lowercase r Republicans is to represent our audience, never to betray our audience, but also to help lead our audience to the thing that they actually want.
--:-- Megan Basham: And so if you watch many of the movies that we've produced along the way, we try to make movies that are actually good, entertaining movies for adults and aren't movies that sort of pander to, you know, complete ideological purity. Because I think that that actually results in being unentertaining. But when we got the opportunity to make content for kids, I feel completely the opposite. Adults should be challenged. Adults should be exposed to things that they don't always agree with so that adults can make good decisions and inform decisions.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Kids do not have the tools to make those kinds of decisions. You say you're a mom in your core mom years. You're on the front lines of the most important battle, not only of our time, but of all time. And that's inculcating values into children. It's teaching children how to become the adults that we want to see them become.
--:-- Megan Basham: And for that reason, when I started thinking about what kind of content do we want to make in our kids' entertainment operation, the answer was obvious to me. I want to make wonderful, beautiful, hilarious, highly entertaining content that is chock full of goodness, that parents can trust implicitly, that they don't have to worry when they put their kids in front of one piece of our content, what's that going to roll into as the next piece of content?
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Of course, parents should vet our content just like they do everything for their kids. You're the most responsible person for your kids. But what if you don't? If you didn't, I want it to still be okay because we're vetting that content.
--:-- Megan Basham: So is there a particular scene in one of the shows that are available on the Bent Key app right now that stands out to you as sort of emblematic of that kind of goodness that you're talking about?
--:-- Jeremy Boring: I would honestly say that I think every single scene of A Wonderful Day with Mabel McClay perfectly encapsulates what we're trying to create.
--:-- Megan Basham: Okay, well, on that note, let's pause for just a second and listen to a clip of Mabel McClay and her dog Jasper.
--:-- [Clip plays from A Wonderful Day with Mabel McClay]
--:-- Megan Basham: Yeah, I'm stuck. What is you, chew up a bottle of glue again? No, no, that was a sticky situation. But no, it's nothing like that. You see, what I mean is I'm having a hard time being creative, see? Oh. I'm all out of ideas. I can't seem to make no more. Oh, I'm just not creative after all. You? Not creative? Show us what you making I am trying to make a time machine A time machine A time machine Yeah that what I trying to do right here Oh my oh my where you get an idea like that Well, see, kind of how it came about was like this. I was missing you so much that I figured if I make a time machine, then I could speed up time and get you to come home soon.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Oh, I see. Jasper, that is so sweet and so creative.
--:-- Megan Basham: So even though my kids are long past preschool age, a friend of mine who does have a three-year-old watched several episodes, and she told me that she was really struck by the quality of the production that has gone into Mabel McLean, but she did wonder how Daily Wire, given that it is something of a new player to this game, is going to be able to keep up the pace of that level of production.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: We've launched 18 series, almost 150 episodes on the app today with new episodes coming every single Saturday. We're bringing back Saturday morning cartoons. But only four of those shows are original productions. It'll take a long time before we produce enough original content that everything on the app is ours. Now, that's not to say that everything on the app hasn't been vetted. It has been every single minute of every single show.
--:-- Megan Basham: But obviously, the shows that we're making best represent what our vision long term for the company is. So you mentioned that only four of the series are original. So that means then you purchased quite a number of series there. How do you decide when you're looking at potential content to purchase, what is it that you see in these shows that make you want to sign on the dotted line, say, we want to buy that show and sign you up?
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Well, first, it has to be good. My dream is that 18 years from now, I'll be on some college campus somewhere. I'll be at some TPUSA event or something. And some young conservative will come up to me and say something. And there are two things that they could say. One of them is, Ben Key, yeah, man, my parents used to make me watch that. The other is, oh, yeah, Ben Key, I grew up with that. I want the latter.
--:-- Megan Basham: So I think the first question that I would want to ask you is, what was your inspiration for this particular venture? And when you were thinking about what you wanted this kids entertainment platform to offer, what kind of shows did you have in mind?
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Well, I think one of the reasons that Daily Wire has been successful is because we don't necessarily give people exactly what they think they want. We give them what we think they actually want. And so at Daily Wire, I've always said part of our job as lowercase r Republicans is to represent our audience, never to betray our audience, but also to help lead our audience to the thing that they actually want.
--:-- Megan Basham: And so if you watch many of the movies that we've produced along the way, we try to make movies that are actually good, entertaining movies for adults and aren't movies that sort of pander to, you know, complete ideological purity. Because I think that that actually results in being unentertaining. But when we got the opportunity to make content for kids, I feel completely the opposite. Adults should be challenged. Adults should be exposed to things that they don't always agree with so that adults can make good decisions and inform decisions.
--:-- Jeremy Boring: Kids do not have the tools to make those kinds of decisions. You say you're a mom in your core mom years. You're on the front lines of the most important battle, not only of our time, but of all time. And that's inculcating values into children. It's teaching children how to become the adults that we want to see them become.
--:-- Megan Basham: And for that reason, when
